Labour & Employment in Alberta

Alberta has released its 2023 annual report for the part of the government that was at one time called Labour and that relate to Albertans ...

Alberta released some injury-related reports in April. Here are the highlights from the 2021 Workplace Injury, Illness and Fatality Statisti...

  Alberta Views recent published an article I wrote about the UCP's record on labour issues. The article reprises and extends a chapter...

Back in September, I blogged about how Alberta’s OHS inspectors seemed unwilling to address uncontrolled aerosol hazards in a workplace. My...

Recently, I blogged about how the UCP’s changes to joint health and safety committees has basically rendered them ineffective. I used the e...

Sean Tucker and Anya Keefe from the University of Regina have released their annual report on workplace fatalities and injuries. This year’s...

The Institute for Work and Health has released results of a new study that matches emergency room visit records with workers' compensat...

Sean Tucker and Anya Keefe from the University of Regina have released their annual roll up of Canadian workplace injuries and fatalities u...

Alberta Labour released its annual report for 2020/21 . As usual, there are a number of interesting tidbits to be found in amongst the spin ...

Alberta finally released its annual report on injuries and fatalities for 2019 . Some of the key findings are that, from 2017 to 2019: Lost-...

Some new research updates have been published by the Institute for Work and Health. A study in BC looked at injury claiming behaviour. It fo...

John Oliver recently did an interesting piece on working conditions in meat-packing plants. These working conditions are broadly similar to ...

  A colleague passed along this Kids in the Hall skit about construction workers jinning up a fake workers’ compensation claim. The premise ...

Back in 2015, Alberta passed laws giving farm workers basic employment rights, including making their employer subject to the ambit of the O...

The Institute for Work & Health (IWH) recently released a follow-up study about the union safety effect in the construction industry. B...

This post previously appeared on the Parkland Institute Blog . On Nov. 5, 2020, Alberta’s United Conservative government introduced Bill 47 ...

  Written by Professors Jason Foster and Bob Barnetson, Athabasca University   This post previously appeared on the Canadian Law of Work For...